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-wrawuponthe whitifh bending hard [hike, which groweth robe a yard high or more, fpreading branches from 
-the botromeare little or nothing waved about, but compafling it at the joynts where they hand, the toppes 
r whereof areftored withfmall yellowilh flowers on a long branch one above another, after whichcome round 
111 hard and white heads, fmall at the bottomc.and broader at the toppes with three corners and a fmall middle point 
flicking up in each, whereof is contained but one feede which is long and reddifh whereof it tooke the name; the 
ol roote is white, long and wooddy peddling after the feede is ripe. 
6 . Afy/tgrummonoflicrmonminut. The letter one grained CftfyagrmK. 
T This leffer Mjugrum hath much fmaller leaves, the loweft whereof are two inches long and one broad, waved 
01 abouc the edges, Handing upon foote ftalkes, and of a pale greene colour, from whence rife one or two (lender 
!U ftalkes about a foote high, with a few very narrow leaves fet on them, compafling them at the joynts: the 
'c flowers are fmall and white, (landing at the toppes in a round tuft together, where afterwards grow fmall round 
ss heades with one kernell apeece within them-- the roote is white and thready but periilieth in the like manner. 
y r MyagroftmiUt(iliqaa rotunda. Round podded like Afyagrum, 
Thisplant hath a ftalke a cubit high, hairy, brittle, ar.d Ipread into branches, whofebottome leaves are about 
r fixe inches long, and one and a halfe broad, rough, hairy, andfappy, not dented at all about the edges, a little 
| ftiarpeintafte with fome clammineffe alfo, but tliofe that are (et at the joynts of the branches, and compalfe 
id them about are nothing fo great, and the hig.her they grow, fmaller and narrower, the flowers (land fpike fafhion 
ni on fmall branches, being fmall and of a white colour alter which come fmall round ruggid heads with a prickeat 
id the toppe, every one on a fmall long footeftalkc, greene at the firlt, and blacke when it is ripe, with an L oylie yel- 
'0 low kernell within them. 
The Place, 
The firft groweth in fome places of Italy wild, but yet both they and we doe fow it in gardens for pleafure, and 
n inthefieldesforthefeedesfakc, whereouc isprelfoian oyle that ferveth the poore for meate, and the rich for 
t their Lamps:the lecond is frequent in Germany mod ufualiy in all their flaxe grounds,which being in ftalke like it, 
K but not of that ufe is accounted a weedeand caft away .except of luch as will fave the feede to give to fmall birds, 
t whereon they will feede when it is ripe, and growing noon the ftalke moft greedily, the third groweth in many 
| placesof our owne country, and being once brought into the garden, and there fuffered to fhed the feede, it will 
a come up yearely againe of it felfe ; the fourth groweth t the Tandy grounds about Balf.ll : the fift on the Engane- 
I an hills by Padoa ; the fixe not farre from Mompeli^r : and the laft neare Lmella that is alfo hard by dfompelier » 
The Time 
All thefe flower in the Summer moneths, and their feeede is ripe about AuguB. 
| The Thames. 
It is called in Greeke uuaypw Adyagrum and i/a\d[x 7 tv^v alfo Adelarnpyrum as ‘Diofcorides faith,and fome i^vttyej. sp 
t CAfyagrium,Pauhn zs£gin£ta hath two forts of plants of an oily {ubftance,^'*^ 1 ' quodimpurum aut fordidum figni- 
| feat, cujufmodi eft (JMe lumpy rum,(fr yjj&yy v quod muftipulum five mufcurium figniftcat yCjna inftdentes five pr £ter vo- 
I lantes mufeas glutine fuo implicate Some (faith Adatthiolus ^take the firft fort here fet downe to be the true AfyagriZ 
of Diofcorides, which,he faith, it cannot be becaufe this hath the leaves of Rocket,but Diofcorides his fhould have 
1 the leaves of Madder.Others againe as he faith would have the fecond fort to be it, which he difaloweth alfo,be- 
> caufe the leaves are liker Woade than Madder, and therefore calleth it Pfeudomyugrum, yet by the judgement of 
1 the beft is the true one. Some there be alfo that take them both to be but one plant: but Bauhinw mifliketh of 
1 their judgement, becaufe they are deferibed to be fo different both in leaves and flowers, and therefore hee 
judgeth them to be two diftinbt plants as they arc indeede Dodonxw fetteth downe this firft c JAtyagrum to be 
that plant which the Germans call FIachfdotteren, and Leyndotteren, which Tragus faith is proper to the fecond. 
Dodon£W alfo taketh this to bo that kinde of graine which both Galen in primo de aliment. facttltut. and Theophra - 
ftusJib.S.i.y.&c. call Eryfimttm, which Gaza tranfbteth Trionum, and is like unto Sefamum, as both he and Pliny 
fay, but not the Eryfimum of Diofeorides, although t Ussy confoundeth them both together.as you may reade here 3 
little before,in the chapter of Eryftmum, whereunto I a 1 ree,but not that the Eryfinwm ohThe-phraftus is our Tra- 
gopyntm Buckwheate, as fome would have it, for thereunto t is utterly unlike, in that the feede of Theophraftu* 
and Pliny, their Sryftmum is oily, which that of Buckewheateis not, nor is fit to be ufed for Lampes, as yon {lull 
heare further,when I come to ipeake of Buckwheate. Tragtu taketh it to be, although not the true Sefamnm of 
Egypt,yet to be very like it,as Pliny & Theophraftus before him did,and calleth it Sefamam German ictt w?,the oyle of 
whole feede is not onely like the true oyle of Sefamumfouth of di. ers,and may fafely be ufed in the fteede there¬ 
of both for meate and medecine, and therefore fome have called it Sejamum minus. 1 he firft is tha tMyagrnm that 
Matthklus miftiked in Ruellitts and others »thac they fhould fo call it,and faith his country people did call -t Droda t 
TarodtlU , and Dorella having leaves like Rocket as he faith, and therefore calleth it Efudomyugrum : Lob:l in Ad. 
verfarijs calleth it APyagru Germanic rj- fume line Gallis, and in his leones fame line Afyagrum,the French .as Ruellitts 
and Dodonzus fay,call it £ameline and Camelinum ■ Baubinus in his AdattbioJus and Pinax calleth it Arfyagrum fati- 
VHm.Dodon.tus Camelina five Theophrafti Eryfimtim efr Myagrion Diof\cor idle, and fo it is indeede : the lecond is the 
Einaria quinta of Tragus, which he alfo calleth Sefama, and of the Germans Flachfdotter. Cor dm upon Diofcorides 
faith,fome pcrtinacioufly infilled that it was the true Sefamum of Diofcorides , but he there difproveth them, and 
faith his people called it Schwaden ( which Gefner in l*:s note thereupon faith, that fome did interpret to be 
Leyndotter ) whole toppe branches with the feede refembled the Juba of Milium > Gefner in hortis Germania 
fheweth, that neither Schwaden nor AAyagrum Diofcoridis (thereby judging them to be two feverail plants ) are 
Sefamum : Matthiolv.s calleth it Pfeudomyagrum with the leaves of Woade, and r Bauhinm in his Adatthklm 
giveth a more exad figure ofit than Tragw doth, yet in imitation of it * Baubinus notwitbftanding that he hath 
given the figure of both, and faith, as I faid before, that they doe import two plants,yet in his hee confoun¬ 
deth them as if they were but one, bringing in the authors both of the one and the other, as Lugdunenfis and o ■ 
thers under his title of AAyagrum fativttmithe third is the Came line tJMyagrum alter urn Thlafpi efpgie of Lobet , the 
fecond AEyagrum ofTabermontanvu .and his third Eryftmum alfo? Gerard hath two figures hereof which Bauhinus 
noteth, the one by the title of C ameline , and the other of Eruca mguftifolia : Tragus calleth it Viola lute a fylvcm 
firis, for as I faid in the defeription, it is very like to the Leucoium fylveftre of Clufw, and in my judgement is the 
E eee £ Thlafpi 
